Orthodox Jews in America

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gurock, Jeffrey S., 1949-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.
Series:Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : within the wide tent of a Bronx Orthodox congregation, circa 1960
  • All alone and out of control
  • American challenges and Jewish challengers
  • Religious dilemmas of a treif land
  • Strategies of New York's Orthodox activists
  • Crisis and compromise
  • Brooklyn's committed communities
  • A more faithful following
  • Comfortable and courted
  • Orthodox vs. Orthodox
  • Open and closed to feminism
  • Epilogue : the tentative Orthodox of the twenty-first century.